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The painting's title is a portmanteau of the name of Dalí's wife, Gala Dalí, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It is a tribute to Francis Crick and James D. Watson, who are credited with determining the double helical structure of DNA in 1953. The painting is in the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. [1]
The painting echoes the subject and treatment of Rembrandt's famous Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632; in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands), and other earlier depictions of public surgery such as the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the Quack Physicians' Hall (c. 1730) by the Dutch ...
Children at Play; Children Dancing at a Party; Children in a Chariot; Children of the Sea (painting) Children Playing with a Goat; Children Teaching a Cat to Dance; Children Under a Palm; Children's Games (Bruegel) The Child's Bath; Christ Blessing the Children (Lucas Cranach the Elder) Christ Child Blessing; Christ Child with a Walking Frame
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Media in category "Images of scientists" The following 39 files are in this category, out of 39 total. ... Robert N Beck ...
The painting caught the public's attention and toured Britain. Received with a striking admiration, there is one report of an observer who, overwhelmed at the painting, died on the spot. [9] The work is considered one of the most famous depictions of the practice of medicine and has been described as "iconic". [6]
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, by Joseph Wright, 1768, National Gallery, London. Joseph Wright was born in Irongate, Derby, to a respectable family of lawyers.He was the third of five children of Hannah Brookes (1700–1764) and John Wright (1697–1767), an attorney and the town clerk of Derby.
Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt is the best-known portrait of the French chemist Louis Pasteur.Painted by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905) in 1885 the painting shows Pasteur in his laboratory at the rue d'Ulm, surrounded by his experimental apparatus, the innovative laboratory glassware used in the experimental methods, developed by him on the field of bacteriology in the late 19th century. [1]